Category Archives: Ornament

Relics and Reliquaries, Saint Roch Church Museum

Relics and reliquaries at the Church of São Roque in Lisbon is distinguished by an unparalleled collection of relics and reliquaries most of them donated to the society of Jesus in the 16th and the 18th centuries. These precious objects of art and devotion can be visited in loco in…

Relics and Reliquaries, Saint Roch Church Museum

Porcelain Gallery and De Ciccio Collection, Capodimonte National Museum

The treasures of the Porcelain Gallery in the Royal Apartments, where a selection of Neapolitan and European manufactured porcelain from the Bourbon collections is exhibited. The most famous piece of the section is the artifact in gilded and embossed silver, lapis lazuli, enamel and carved rock crystals. In rooms 35…

Porcelain Gallery and De Ciccio Collection, Capodimonte National Museum

Far East Ceramics Collection: China, Japan, South-East Asia, International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza

The opening of an exhibition hall devoted to ceramics from the Far East represents for the International Museum of ceramics in Faenza the goal of a long lasting project in collaboration with the National Museum of Eastern Art “Giuseppe Tucci” in Rome. About 400 ceramics will be displayed in the…

Far East Ceramics Collection: China, Japan, South-East Asia, International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza

South side Rooms on the Second Floor, Ca’ Rezzonico

Ca’ Rezzonico is a palazzo on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy. It is a particularly notable example of the 18th century Venetian baroque and rococo architecture and interior decoration, and displays paintings by the leading Venetian painters of the period, including Francesco Guardi and Giambattista…

South side Rooms on the Second Floor, Ca’ Rezzonico

Office Pavilion, Seville Cathedral

The history of the Office Pavilion dates back to the beginning of the 18th century, when there were a series of houses located in the southwest corner of the cathedral, corresponding to rental units, barns and other warehouses. The precariousness of the structures made the Cabildo propose to build an…

Office Pavilion, Seville Cathedral

Greater Sacristy, Seville Cathedral

The main sacristy of the cathedral of Seville is attached to the eighth chapel of the nave of the epistle. The Sacristía mayor is a Renaissance construction that was made in the 16th century according to the project of the architect Diego de Riaño, with rich Plateresque ornamentation and novel…

Greater Sacristy, Seville Cathedral

Long term Exhibitions, Afro Brasil Museum

The Permanent exhibition encompasses several facets of the African and Afro-Brazilian cultural universes, addressing themes such as religion, work, art, the African diaspora and slavery, and recording the historical trajectory and African influences in the construction ofBrazilian society. With over 6,000 works, including paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, documents and ethnological…

Long term Exhibitions, Afro Brasil Museum

Altar of Forgiveness, Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral

It is located in the trascoro, in the front of the central nave. The altarpiece was made by the Spanish architect Jerónimo de Balbás in 1735, being one of his most important works. It is baroque, finished in gold leaf, represents the first use of the stipe in the Americas,…

Altar of Forgiveness, Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral

High Altar, Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral

This disappeared in the forties of the twentieth century. On the occasion of the Jubilee of the year 2000, a new table of the main altar was made to replace the previous one. This was built in modernist style by architect Ernesto Gómez Gallardo. Altar of the Kings The Altar…

High Altar, Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral

Imperial Residence and East Terraces, Alcázar Site Museum, Chapultepec Castle

Emperor Maximilian I entrusted Carl Gangolf Kayser (“Architect of the Imperial House”; who was in charge of the modifications to the Imperial Palace in front of the Main Square of the capital), the study and project for the reforms that would best adapt the fortress of Chapultepec to transform it…

Imperial Residence and East Terraces, Alcázar Site Museum, Chapultepec Castle

Entrance and North Wing, Alcázar Site Museum, Chapultepec Castle

The spaces of the Alcázar are set with furniture, domestic utensils, jewels, paintings and other objects belonging, on the ground floor, to the time when the Castle was inhabited by the emperors Maximiliano and Carlota (1864-1867); and on the top floor, at the time when President Porfirio Díaz and his…

Entrance and North Wing, Alcázar Site Museum, Chapultepec Castle

Modern Age Construction on Top floor, Alcázar Site Museum, Chapultepec Castle

The castle fell into disuse after the fall of the Second Mexican Empire in 1867. in 1876, a decree established it as an Astronomical, Meteorological and Magnetic Observatory on the site, which was opened in 1878. However, the observatory was only functional for five years until they decided to move…

Modern Age Construction on Top floor, Alcázar Site Museum, Chapultepec Castle

Silver Hall, Franz Mayer Museum

Silver, together with Talavera type ceramics, is one of the most abundant collections in the collection. Even more than 95 percent of the silver pieces are of Mexican origin, since the country has been a great producer of this metal, in addition to Franz Mayer “ repatriated “many copies found…

Silver Hall, Franz Mayer Museum

Mexican handcrafts and folk art Collection, Museum of Popular Art in Mexico City

The Museum of Popular Art has more than 10,000 works, the collection consists of representative works of Mexican Popular Art in Pottery, Weakling, Vegetal fibers, Cherries, Toys, Maque or Lacquer, Lapidary, Wood, More expensive, Metalwork, Miniatures, Goldsmith, Paper and paperboard, Popular painting, Saddlery, Textile, Glass, Various ephemeral materials (horn, bone,…

Mexican handcrafts and folk art Collection, Museum of Popular Art in Mexico City

Talavera Ceramica, Painting on Earth and Space, Museum of Popular Art in Mexico City

The talavera of Puebla brings together a long artistic tradition with a millenary origin. Traditional poblano pottery has its origin at the time of the conquest. The process of realization of the talavera was influenced by the indigenous hand and that of the Middle East; Together they made this craft…

Talavera Ceramica, Painting on Earth and Space, Museum of Popular Art in Mexico City

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